The Routledge Companion to Modernity, Space and Gender reframes the discussion of modernity, space and gender by examining how "modernity" has been defined in various cultural contexts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, how this definition has been expressed spatially and architecturally, and what effect this has had on women in their everyday lives. In doing so, this volume presents theories and methods for understanding space and gender as they relate to the development of cities, urban space and individual building types (such as housing, work spaces or commercial spaces) in both the creation of and resistance to social transformations and modern global capitalism. The book contains a diverse range of case studies from the US, Europe, the UK, and Asian countries such as China and India, which bring together a multiplicity of approaches to a continuing and common issue and reinforces the need for alternatives to the existing theoretical canon.
Introduction Alexandra Staub Part 1: Social Welfare as a Modern State
1.
In the Name of Progress: Gender and Social Housing in Post-World War II
Vienna Maria Mesner
2. Planning for Patriarchy? Gender Equality in the
Swedish Modern Built Environment Irene Molina
3. Modern Home, Environment,
and Gender. Built, Planned, and Lived Spaces in Post-War Finland Kirsi
Saarikangas and Liisa Horelli Part 2: Liberal and Neo-liberal Values
4. The
"Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change
in the Twentieth Century Ruth Schwartz Cowan
5. Women in the Office: Clerical
Work, Modernity and Workplaces Kim England
6. Selling Desire: Gender
Constructs, Social Stratification, and the Commercialization of Modern Living
Alexandra Staub
7. Engendering Urban Design: An Unfinished Story Marion
Roberts
8. Zaha Hadid's Penthouse: Gender, creativity and "biopolitics" in
the neoliberal workplace Igea Santina Troiani Part 3: Socialism and Beyond
9. Communist Comfort: Socialist Modernism and the Making of Cozy Homes in the
Khrushchev Era Susan E. Reid
10. Women as "Socialist" Dwellers: Everyday
Lives in the German Democratic Republic Christine Hannemann
11. Reclaiming
Space for Women: Negotiating Modernity in Feminist Restorations in
Post-Socialist Eastern Germany Katja M. Guenther
12. Kin-Related Elder Care
in Russian Families: Challenges for Homemaking Olga Tkach
13. Space, Body,
and Subjectivity in Įgnes Kocsiss Film, Fresh Air (2006) Nóra Séllei Part 4:
Modernism vs. Traditional Values
14. Unveiled Middle-Class Housing in Tehran,
1945-1979 Rana Habibi
15. Appropriating the Masculine Sacred: Islamism,
Gender and Mosque Architecture in Contemporary Turkey Bülent Batuman
16. The
Emergent Gender of Rural Modernities in Turkey Eda Acara Part 5: A Rapidly
Globalizing World
17. Migration, Gender and Space in China C. Cindy Fan
18.
Migrant Women Walking Down the Cheap Road: Modernization and Being
Fashionable in Shanghai Penn Tsz Ting Ip
19. Space and Gender in the Chinese
Workplace: Past and Present Duanfang Lu
20. The Bungalow in the Colonial and
Post-Colonial Twentieth Century: Modernity, Dwelling and Gender in the
Cultural Landscape of Gujarat, India Madhavi Desai
21. Gendered Household
Expectations: Neoliberal Policies, Graveyard Shifts, and Womens
Responsibilities in Mumbai, India Aparna Parikh
22. Reinterpreting Gender in
Globalizing India: Afghan Sikh Refugees in Delhi Citys Built Environment
Shelly Pandey
Alexandra Staub is an Associate Professor of Architecture and an Affiliate Faculty of the Rock Ethics Institute at Pennsylvania State University. She has written extensively on how architecture is shaped by cultural demands, most recently in her book Conflicted Identities: Housing and the Politics of Cultural Representation, which examines how architecture and space can express divergent identities in any given cultural context. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in New York, her Dip.-Ing. (Arch.) from the University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany, and her Ph.D. from the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus, Germany.
